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Australian Black Metallers PESTILENTIAL SHADOWS have just premiered a video for ‘Death-Knell’ at this location. The track will be featured on the band’s upcoming eighth full-length “Wretch”, which will be released on September 05, 2025 via Northern Silence, in co-operation with Brilliant Emperor. The previously revealed album track ‘Where Sunlight Goes To Die’ can still be streamed over here. The full tracklist reads as follows: ‘Wretch’, ‘Erebus Divination’, ‘Despondent’, ‘Death-Knell’, ‘Where Sunlight Goes To Die’, ‘Aherbelts’, ‘Cold Entropy’ and ‘Embraced By The Spirit-Realm’. The “Wretch” cover artwork as once again been provided by Greallach Art. www.facebook.com/pestilentialshadowsofficial
“Darkened Path Revealed”, the 2011 CD compilation from US Death Metallers EXMORTIS, will now also be released for the very first time on vinyl LP and cassette tape via Xtreem Music. It includes the band’s two demos “Descent Into Chaos” (1988) and “Immortality’s End” (1989), the 7″ EP “Fade From Reality” (1991 + bonus track) and two tracks from a 1994 compilation. It comes with liner notes, covers of all the demos and EPs, lyrics and tons of photos. The vinyl edition will be available on lime green wax (100 copies) and classic black wax (150 copies). The re-release of the CD comes with a thick 20-page booklet, and the cassette tape will be available in a clear tape with lime green wheels and 8-pannel foldout j-card. You can check out the entire release here. For more EXMORTIS info please visit www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100057556916059
“Anatomical Discorporated Aberration”, the latest EP from Mexican Deathgrinders IMPENDING ROT, will be released on September 19, 2025 via Blood Harvest Records on 12″ vinyl format. It was originally released digitally in early 2023. A full EP stream is available at https://impendingrot.bandcamp.com
On September 12, 2025 Purity Through Fire will release the self-titled debut full-length from Portuguese Black Metallers REDENÇÃO PELAS CHAMAS on CD and vinyl LP formats. It will feature the following tracks: ‘Intro’, ‘Frente Triunfal’, ‘Misantropia Total’, ‘Clamor Distante’, ‘Ritual Apotropaico’, ‘Nortada’, ‘Floresta De Ecos’, ‘Cruor’, ‘Outro’ and ‘S.V.’. You can already check out ‘Nortada’ at this location. For more information please visit www.purity-through-fire.com
Poland’s technical Thrashers SPECIES will release their sophomore full-length “Changelings” on September 19, 2025 via 20 Buck Spin on all formats. A video for the first single ‘The Essence’ is already available over here. The complete tracklist of the album reads as follows: ‘Inspirit Creation’, ‘The Essence’, ‘Waves Of Time’, ‘Voyager’, ‘Born Of Stitch And Flesh’, ‘Terror Unknown’ and ‘Biological Masterpiece’. The “Changelings” cover artwork was created by Aleksandra Pawłowska. www.facebook.com/metalspecies
Swedish blackened Death Metallers GAM have just digitally self-released a new four-song EP entitled “Iron Gauntlet”. You can stream it in its entirety at this location now. For all additional band information please visit www.facebook.com/gamsweden
Greek Grinders DEPHOSPHORUS have just released their fifth full-length “Planetoktonos” on jewel case CD via Selfmadegod Records. You can check it out over here. More about DEPHOSPHORUS at www.facebook.com/dephosphorus
Ohio based Thrashers VINDICATOR have just released a visualizer video for ‘Battle Box’ at this location. The track will be featured on the band’s upcoming fifth full-length “Whispers Of Death”, which will be released on August 22, 2025 on CD and digital formats via Speed Meddle Records. It was produced by VINDICATOR and Ben Bennett and engineered and mastered by Ben Bennett at Chop Daddy Ranch in Seattle, Washington. The cover artwork was created by Frank Walls. www.facebook.com/vindicatormetal
French Gothic / Doom Metal band WINTEREVE has just released a video for ‘Grief Eternal’ at this location. The track will be featured on their upcoming third full-length “Birth Of Tragedy”, which will be released this fall. The band has also launched a crowdfunding campaign to help fund the physical release of “Birth Of Tragedy” on CD and LP over here. More about WINTEREVE at www.facebook.com/winterevemusic
Greek Black Metallers MEDIEVAL DEMON have just revealed the track ‘Fullmoon Over The Temple Of Belial’ over here. It will be featured on the band’s upcoming fifth full-length “All Powers Of Darkness”, which will be released on August 22, 2025 via Hells Headbangers. The previously revealed album track ‘Archaic Sacrificial Rites’ can still be streamed at this location. The complete tracklist of “All Powers Of Darkness” reads like this: ‘Raging Lord Of The Deeps’, ‘Eosforean Night’, ‘Archaic Sacrificial Rites’, ‘Mystic Path Towards The Abyss’, ‘Fullmoon Over The Temple Of Belial’, ‘Abaddon’, ‘Tartarean Winds Of Vengeance’ and ‘All Powers Of Darkness’. The cover artwork was created by Mark Riddick. www.facebook.com/medievaldemonofficial
German Pagan Metallers THORONDIR will release their fourth full-length “Wächter Des Waldes” on October 09, 2025 via Trollzorn Records. A lyric video for ‘Bruder Hain’ can already be watched at this location. The cover artwork was created by Jan Yrlund. Here’s the complete tracklist of “Wächter Des Waldes”: ‘In Der Tiefe Des Waldes’, ‘Drudenfluch’, ‘Blut Und Ruhm’, ‘Rübezahl’, ‘Der Wilde Jäger’, ‘Bruder Hain’, ‘Morast’, ‘Zur Alten Taverne’, ‘Geisterheer Vom Fichtelwald’, ‘Perchtas Schatten’ and ‘Baldurs Ruf’. www.facebook.com/thorondirofficial
Swedish Death Metallers RIBSPREADER will release their eleventh full-length “As Gods Devour” on September 30, 2025 via Xtreem Music on CD and digital formats. You can already listen to the first advance single ‘The Pig In You’ over here. The cover artwork was created by Spanish artist Lucretia Morti. The complete “As Gods Devour” tracklist reads as follows: ‘As Gods Devour’, ‘The Pig In You’, ‘Cold Dead World’, ‘Massgrave Madness’, ‘Rotten Soil Serenade’, ‘Punish You’, ‘As Corpses Cry’, ‘Feeder Bleeder’ and ‘Deadhunter’. www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100044948155884
Pennsylvania based Thrash / Hardcore Metal four-piece CRUEL BOMB will self-release their self-titled debut full-length on August 15, 2025 on CD, limited vinyl LP (100 copies) and digitally. It will feature the following tracks: ‘Cruel Bomb’, ‘Target Neutralized’, ‘Hell Hounds V2’, ‘AC130’, ‘Scorched Earth’, ‘Atomic Demolition Munition’, ‘Glass House’, ‘Night Of The Hunt’, ‘Gravemind’, ‘The End’ and ‘World Breaker’. You can already watch a video for ‘Target Neutralized’ at this location. The album was recorded, mixed and mastered by Eric Novroski at Novroski Studios and the cover artwork was created by Ed Repka. www.facebook.com/cruelbomb
On October 17, 2025 Dying Victims Productions will release “Destructive Elite Terror”, the debut full-length from Helsinki, Finland based Speed / Death Metal three-piece DET, on CD and vinyl LP formats. It will feature the following tracks: ‘Intro’, ‘Annihilation’, ‘Catacomb’, ‘Strike’, ‘Nosferatu’, ‘Impaler’, ‘Sinister’, ‘Vengeance’, ‘Bloodshed’, ‘Cruel’, ‘Possessor’, ‘Serpentine’ and ‘Destructive Elite Terror’. You can already stream ‘Strike’ over here. More about DET at www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100087933537193
Greek Progressive Death Metallers SCORCHED EARTH have digitally self-released their debut EP “Bloodspill” on July 2025. A full stream of it is available at this location now. For all additional band information check out www.facebook.com/scorched.earth.band.official
Hungarian Death Metallers CANCER VOID are streaming their debut mini album “First Metastasis” in its entirety over here now. It will be released via Me Saco Un Ojo Records (vinyl LP), in co-operation with Iron Fortress (cassette tape) today. www.facebook.com/mesacounojo
Polish blackened Death Metallers SOTHORIS have just released a lyric video for ‘Pro Memoria’ at this location. The track will be featured on the band’s upcoming third full-length “Domus Omnium Mortuorum”, which will be released on CD and cassette tape via Fetzner Death Records, in co-operation with ADG Records on October 03, 2025. The album was recorded, mixed and mastered by Krzysztof Kostencki at Tetra Wave Studio. The cover artwork was created by Bartosz Szczepaniak and Maksymilian Krasoń. The complete “Domus Omnium Mortuorum” tracklist reads as follows: ‘Wieczornica’, ‘Szkarłat’, ‘Lawa’, ‘Byłem Faustem’, ‘Dzieci Diabła’, ‘Pro Memoria’, ‘Dym’ and ‘Piętno’. www.facebook.com/sothorisband
On September 12, 2025 Purity Through Fire will release “Mara Comes And Darkness Shall Reign”, the sophomore full-length from German Black Metallers SCHREIGARM, on CD and vinyl LP formats. It will feature the following tracks: ‘Darkness Shall Reign’, ‘Winds Of The Ancient Pantheons’, ‘Whispers Of The Blackened Woods’, ‘When The Ravens Flow Through My Veins’, ‘Through Time, Death And The Beast Within’, ‘Nine Days On The Gallows Tree’, ‘Mara Comes’ and ‘Born From The Ashes Of War’. You can already check out ‘Whispers Of The Blackened Woods’ over here. More SCHREIGARM information you will find at www.facebook.com/schreigarm
American Death Metallers PLASMODULATED are streaming their upcoming debut full-length “An Ocean Ov Putrid, Stinky, Vile, Disgusting Hell” in its entirety at this location now. It will be released on August 01, 2025. Personal Records and Dawnbreed Records will be handling the CD version, while Gurgling Gore and Dawnbreed will be handling the vinyl LP and cassette tape versions. https://plasmodulated.bandcamp.com
Swedish progressive / atmospheric Death / Black Metallers AN ABSTRACT ILLUSION will release their third full-length “The Sleeping City” on October 17, 2025 via Willowtip Records on CD, limited longbox CD, double vinyl LP and digital formats. It was produced by the band’s guitarist / bass player Karl Westerlund and mixed and mastered by Robin Leijon. The drums were recorded and produced by Jakob Herrmann (DEVIN TOWNSEND, EVERGREY, VOLA, VILDHJÄRTA) at Top Floor Studios in Gothenburg and the artwork was created by Alex Eckman-Lawn (HORRENDOUS, AFTERBIRTH, WOE, NERO DI MARTE). The following tracks will be featured on “The Sleeping City”: ‘Blackmurmur’, ‘No Dreams Beyond Empty Horizons’, ‘Like A Geyser Ever Erupting’, ‘Frost Flower’, ‘Emmett’, ‘Silverfields’ and ‘The Sleeping City’. A video for the album’s first single ‘No Dreams Beyond Empty Horizons’ can already be watched over here. More about AN ABSTRACT ILLUSION at www.facebook.com/anabstractillusion
Rhode Island based Black Metallers ANCIENT TORMENT are streaming their upcoming debut full-length “Follow The Echo Of Curses” in its entirety at this location now. It will be released on August 01, 2025 via Eternal Death on CD format. The vinyl LP edition will follow later via Goatowarex. The album was recorded at Distorted Forest Studio in the early months of 2024, mixed by Josh Welshman at Flux Studios in New York City, mastered by Dan Lowndes at Resonance Sound Studio and the artwork was supplied by David Thiérrée. https://ancienttorment.bandcamp.com
German Thrashers WHITE MANTIS have just released another song from their upcoming sophomore full-length “Arrows At The Sun”. You can check out a lyric video for the track ‘Roboticator’ at this location now. The album will feature the following tracks: ‘Nekrotornado’, ‘Arrows At The Sun’, ‘Pass The Torch’, ‘Divide And Kill’, ‘Atavistic Power’, ‘Over Your Pale Bones’, ‘Toxic Sniper’, ‘Roboticator’, ‘Reality Exists’ and ‘Altar Of Technology’. “Arrows At The Sun” will be released on August 22, 2025 via High Roller Records. The cover artwork was created by Velio Josto. www.facebook.com/white.mantis
German Death Metallers NEW WORLD DEPRESSION have just released a lyric video for ‘Carnage’ over here. The track will be featured on the band’s upcoming seventh full-length “Abysmal Void”, which will be released on September 19, 2025 via Testimony Records. It was recorded with Jörg Uken at his Soundlodge Studio in East Frisia, Germany. Here’s the complete “Abysmal Void” tracklist: ‘The Vault’, ‘Book Of Trophies’, ‘Spoils Of War’, ‘Blind Eyes’, ‘Marching On Our Graves’, ‘Burning Down’, ‘Grenadier’, ‘Expect No Mercy’, ‘Carnage’ and ‘Moonbound Hunger’. www.facebook.com/newworlddepression
American Death Metallers BONGINATOR will release their sophomore full-length “Retrodeath” on October 24, 2025 via Testimony Records on all formats. A lyric video for ‘Pizza Time (ft. Belushi Speed Ball)’ is already available over here now. A video for ‘All Cops Are Biomechs’ can additionally be watched at this location. The complete “Retrodeath” tracklist reads as follows: ‘Sequence Initiation (Intro)’, ‘All We Really Are Is Livestock’, ‘All Cops Are Biomechs’, ‘Pizza Time (ft. Belushi Speed Ball)’, ‘The Fog Interlude’, ‘The Fog’, ‘Short Ass Bus (ft. Big Ass Truck and Ignominious)’, ‘Lunk Alarm’, ‘Intruder Organism Interlude’, ‘Intruder Organism (ft. Fulci)’, ‘Who Let the “Things” (1989) Out’ and ‘Outro (ft. Tim Capello)’. www.facebook.com/bonginatorma
On October 17, 2025 Dying Victims Productions will release “Night Danger”, the tenth full-length of Colombia’s Heavy / Speed Metallers REVENGE, on CD and vinyl LP formats. The album will feature the following tracks: ‘Black Sight’, ‘Night Danger’, ‘The Hammers Fall’, ‘Soldiers Heart’, ‘Misty Night’, ‘The Devil Race’, ‘Desire From Pain’ and ‘Crushing Death’. You can already check out a promo medley at this location. For all additional band information please visit www.facebook.com/revengespeed
Philadelphia’s Death Metallers CAESAREAN will release their debut EP “Wretched Decrepitude” on September 12, 2025 on CD and digital formats via Horror Pain Gore Death Productions. The material was mastered by IMPALED’s Leon Del Muerte. Here’s the full tracklist: ‘Proteinaceous Infectious Particle’, ‘Wretched Decrepitude’, ‘Grotesque Transfiguration’, ‘Anointed In Black Ichor’, ‘Perverse Formulary Of Human Fluids’ and ‘Submerged In Insecticide’. You can already check out ‘Submerged In Insecticide’ over here. More about CAESAREAN at www.caesarean.org
New York based all female brutal Death Metallers CASTRATOR have just revealed another track from their upcoming sophomore full-length “Coronation Of The Grotesque”. You can check out ‘Fragments Of Defiance’ at this location now. The album will be released via Dark Descent Records on August 15, 2025 on CD, vinyl LP, cassette tape and digital formats. A video for the album’s first single, ‘Covenant Of Deciept’, which was filmed by IMMOLATION’s Bob Vigna, can still be watched over here. “Coronation Of The Grotesque” was recorded at various studios across the US. The bass recording was engineered by John Tardy (OBITUARY) at Redneck Studios, guitars and vocals by Jordan Milner at Obsidian Audio, additional guitars by Taylor Nordberg (DEICIDE) at Smoke and Mirrors Productions and the drums by Noah Buchanan (NUNSLAUGHTER) at Mercinary Studios, where Buchanan also handled mixing and mastering. The cover artwork was created by John Zig. www.facebook.com/castratorband
Seattle, Washington based progressive Thrashers URSAWRATH are streaming the track ‘Thrive In Destruction And Death’ at this location now. It will be featured on the band’s upcoming debut full-length “Emergence”, which will be digitally self-released on August 29, 2025. The material was recorded by USRAWRATH and mixed and mastered by Max Barber of Singular Path Audio. The artwork was created by Riaj Gragoth. A video for the album opener ‘Thawed By Hell’s Flames’ can additionally be watched over here. The complete “Emergence” tracklist reads as follows: ‘Thawed By Hell’s Flames’, ‘Rot’, ‘Thrive In Destruction And Death’, ‘In The Abyss’, ‘Lies’, ‘And The Reckoning’, ‘Echo Chamber’, ‘Glass Tower’, ‘Sentenced To Life’ and ‘Unstoppable’. www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61551945290981
Hessian Firm has re-released “Lord Of Nightmare”, the debut full-length from defunct Japanese Black Metallers ENDLESS DISMAL MOAN. It was originally released in 2006 via Blackmetal.com. A full album stream you will find at this location. The band’s sole member Chaos 9 passed away in 2008. www.facebook.com/hessianfirm
“Iniquitous”, the 1993 debut full-length from US Death Metallers ROTTREVORE, has been re-released via Xtreem Music on CD, vinyl LP and cassette tape. The vinyl edition is available on crystal clear vinyl with a green center ink spot (100 copies) and classic black (150 copies), now with a full-color insert. The CD got a new print with a metallic green background and the cassette tape comes in translucent white with green text. You can stream the entire album over here. More about ROTTREVORE at www.facebook.com/rottrevorefb
Finnish Death Metallers MALFORMED have just released their debut full-length “Confinement Of Flesh” via Dark Descent Records (US), in co-operation with Extremely Rotten Productions (Europe). The album is available on vinyl LP, CD, cassette tape and digital formats. It was recorded by MALFORMED, produced and engineered by Felix Pennanen (DISGUISED MALIGNANCE) and mastered by Lasse at Ballade Studios. A full album stream is available at this location. You can follow MALFORMED at www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100088862900983
Greek Black / Doom Metallers ACTUS SEPTEM have just released their sophomore full-length “The Bleeding” via Fatres Records. A full album stream is available at this location. More band info you will find at www.facebook.com/actusseptem
Polish melodic Viking Death Metallers TEDD DEIREADH will release their debut full-length “Fight To Death” on August 15, 2025 through Via Nocturna digitally and on CD. It was recorded, mixed and mastered by Michał Bejger at Home Studio. The cover artwork was created by Julia “Lin” Linowska. The album will feature the following tracks: ‘Fight To Death’, ‘No Honour’, ‘Legend’s Demise’, ‘Mourn Shall We The Fallen’, ‘Savior’, ‘Birds Of Paradise’, ‘Mercenary’s Life’, ‘Valkyries’ and ‘As The Sword Falls’. You can already listen to ‘Birds Of Paradise’ over here. For all additional information please visit www.facebook.com/tedddeireadhband
Spanish brutal Death Metallers FERMENTO are streaming their fourth full-length “Acts Of Blood” at this location now. It will be self-released on July 28, 2025. www.facebook.com/fermentoband
US Death Metallers PERDITION TEMPLE have just revealed a new track entitled ‘Resurrect Damnation’ at this location. It will be featured on the band’s upcoming fifth full-length “Malign Apotheosis”, which will be released later this year via Hells Headbangers. www.facebook.com/perditiontemple
Malta based Death Metallers BEHEADED are streaming their seventh full-length “Għadam” in its entirety over here now. It will be released via Agonia Records today. www.facebook.com/beheadedmt
Black / Death / Industrial one-man band ACEPHALIC VOID has just digitally self-released its debut EP “We Chose Death”. You can stream the entire EP at https://acephalicvoid.bandcamp.com. The project is intended to remain anonymous, focusing entirely on the music and message.
Finnish melodic Death / Doom Metallers SHADECROWN have just released their fourth full-length “0” via Inverse Records today. You can stream it in its entirety over here now. Videos for ‘The Art Of Grieving’ and ‘Inadequate’ can be watched here and here, a lyric video for ‘Tear-Blind’ is available at this location. The “0” cover artwork was created by Saku Tammelin. www.facebook.com/shadecrownband
“Svekkelse”, the sixth full-length from Trondheim, Norway based Black Metallers GJENDØD, will be released via Osmose Productions on September 26, 2025 on CD, vinyl LP and cassette tape formats. Here’s the complete tracklist already: ‘Lykkens Bortgang’, ‘Maktens Sødme’, ‘Uten Nåde’, ‘En Staur I Hjertet’, ‘En Elv Av Kjøtt’, ‘Likvekkelsen’, ‘Med Fjell Av Åte’ and ‘Den Falske Råte’. www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100032359227090
Finnish melodic Death / Doom Metallers SERPENT GOD will release their debut full-length “Denial” on October 10, 2025 via Inverse Records. A lyric video for the third single ‘sermon’ has just been released at this location. Another lyric video for ‘repent’ can be watched over here and a video for ‘oblivion’ is available here. The complete tracklist of “Denial” reads as follows: ‘denial’, ‘beneath’, ‘repent’, ‘revelation’, ‘alive’, ‘sermon’, ‘oblivion’, ‘keyhole’ and ‘void’. The cover artwork was created by Heidi Hyvärinen. www.facebook.com/serpentgodband
London, UK based blackened Death Metallers CULT BURIAL have just premiered ‘Beseech’, the second single from their upcoming third full-length “Collapse Of Pattern, Reverence Of Dust”, over here. The album will be self-released on September 05, 2025 on CD, vinyl LP and digitally. Blastbeats Vinyl will be the exclusive U.S. distributor for the vinyl LP variants of “Collapse Of Pattern, Reverence Of Dust”. The album was mixed by Greg Dawson at BWC Studios, mastered by Brad Boatright at Audiosiege and the artwork was supplied by Legerdemain. The complete tracklist reads as follows: ‘Vincula’, ‘Collapse’, ‘Aether’, ‘Mire’, ‘Enthrall’, ‘Beseech’, ‘Vestige’ and ‘Seethe’. www.facebook.com/cultburial
Polish Black Metallers MYSTHICON will self-release their sophomore full-length “Bieśń” on September 23, 2025 on digital format, CD and at a later date on vinyl. It was mixed and mastered by Adrian Mięsowicz at Tribe Five Studio (KARPATHIAN RELICT, KSU) and the cover artwork was created by Michał “Xaay” Loranc (GOD DETHRONED, KAMELOT, KARL SANDERS, NILE, TURBO). The following tracks will be featured: ‘Shapes’, ‘Unbearable Silence’, ‘We Are The Worms’, ‘Na Naszej Krwi’, ‘The Storyteller’ and ‘Creation’ (LUX OCCULTA cover). You can already watch a video of the song ‘Na Naszej Krwi’ at this location. More about MYSTHICON at www.facebook.com/mysthicon